Aethusa cynapium

HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE
The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastrointestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhoea, there is MARKED INABILITY TO DIGEST MILK, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with VIOLENCE.
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Common name: - Fool’s parsley
Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Dog poison, Fool’s parsley, Lesser hemlock
Family: Umbelliferae
Prover: Dr Nenning in 1828
Duration of Action: 20 to 30 days
Miasmatic Background: Psora, syphilis and sycosis�Temperament: Confused and idiotic
Diathesis: Scrofulous
Thermal Relationship: Hot patient

1. AETHUSA CYNAPIUM 1 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

2. AETHUSA CYNAPIUM Common name : - Fool’s parsley Source: Vegetable kingdom Synonyms: Dog poison, Fool’s parsley, Lesser hemlock Family: Umbelliferae Prover : Dr Nenning in 1828 Duration of Action: 20 to 30 days Miasmatic Background: Psora , syphilis and sycosis Temperament: Confused and idiotic Diathesis: Scrofulous Thermal Relationship: Hot patient 2 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

3. Introduction Aethusa cynapium is one of the best remedies for the vomiting in children especially during dentition and in hot summer weather due to intolerance of milk It is thirstless remedy and most important for cholera infantum and also for epilepsy in babies 3 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

4. Clinical Brain fag Cholera infantum Convulsion Delirium Epilepsy Intolerance of milk Disorder of stomach vomiting 4 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

5. Sphere of action It acts on nervous system, glandular system, mucous membrane and skin. 5 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

6. Pathogenesis It is frightful poison having narcotic properties as well as paralyzing effects. The principal use we make of the drug arises from it’s action on stomach. 6 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

7. Constitution Make up of body : Features expressive of pain and anxiety. Erruption on end of the nose. Sunkenness in the face with marked linea nasalis . Physically the child is so weak that he is unable to stand or hold up the head Temprament : Mentally the patient is idiotic, confuse and unable to think 7 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

8. 3. Relation with hot and cold: Hot patient 4. Miasam : It touches all 3 miasams 8 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

9. GUIDING SYMPTOMS “Intolerance of milk in any form” i.e. mother’s milk, cow’s milk, bottled and tinned milk. Indigestion of teething children, vomiting is violent, sudden, of frothy milk-white substance or yellow fluid followed by CURDLE MILK AND CHEESY MATTER. Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating. 9 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

10. 4) Complete absence of thirst is very striking in this medicine. 5)Physically great weakness; the child neither stand nor hold up the head. 6) Mentally patient is idiotic; incapacious to think and is very much confused. 7)Epileptic spasm with clenched thumb, red face, fixed and dilated pupils, mouth filled with foam. Locked jaw 10 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

11. MIND Patient imagine that he sees rat or mouse running across the room. Idiotic with incapacity of thinking anything and confused. The features expressive of much pain and anxiety. 11 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

12. HEAD Distressing pains in the occiput down nape of neck and spine > lying down and pressure. Head symptoms are >by passing flatus and by stool. Hair feels pulled. Vertigo; with sleepiness, with palpitation, with weakness. Can not raise head. Head hot after vertigo. Squeezing headache, with vertigo agg . walking and looking upward. Dizzy and drowsy. 12 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

13. FACE Sunken; pale, puffed, spotted, red. Linea nasalis marked. Blue white pallor about the lips. Deathly aspect. Chin and corners of mouth feel cold. 13 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

14. MOUTH Tongue seems too long. Aphthae in the mouth. Speech slow embarrassed. Speechless. Taste bitter; of onions; of cheese; sweetish in morning. 14 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

15. STOMACH Nibbling appetite. Intolerance of milk. Violent sudden vomiting of milk as soon as swallowed or In large curds. Hungry after vomiting. LIMPNESS AND DEEP SLEEP AFTER VOMITING. DEATHLY NAUSEA. Regurgitation of food long after eating. Vomiting of frothy matter white as milk; or yellow fluid. Stomach feels tuned upside down. Digestion affected from brain exhaustion. Retching. 15 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

16. STOOL Yellow green slimy diarrhoea . Stools undigested. Obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all the action of the bowel s has been lost. Choleric affection of old age. 16 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

17. Respiratory system Short breath interrupted by hiccough. Suffering renders the patient speechless. Crampy constriction in chest. Cough causes pain in head. Stitches in left side of chest. 17 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

18. Extremities Fingers and thumbs bent inwards or clenched. Sensation as if arms had become much shorter. Numbness of hands and feet. Heaviness, weakness, contraction of fingers. Excoriation of thighs on walking. 18 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

19. Fever Great heat without thirst. Must be covered during sweat. Sweating, on slightest physical effort. 19 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

20. Back and Extremities Want of power to stand up or hold head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back. Weakness of lower extremities. Fingers and thumbs clenched. Numbness of hands and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes downward. 20 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

21. BABY One can take the help of Aethusa cynapium as one of the best remedies for vomiting in babies, cholera infantum and epilepsy of children. The trouble occur normally during dentition in hot summer weather, in children who cannot tolerate milk in any form. Baby is very weak, can not stand up or hold the head up. Weakness and prostration with sleepiness. 21 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

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23. Cholera infantum If milk is drunk by the baby stays in stomach for long time, it is vomited out finally as very sour curd, so large in quantity that it would seems almost impossible that the baby could have ejected them. The onset is sudden and the child lies stretched out in unconscious condition. Causation: High temperature of summer, errors of diet, dentition. 23 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

24. Convulsion or Epilepsy It has got particular symptoms of epileptic convulsion. Eyes are turned downward instead of upward or nside wise. If the condition is worse, there is sunkennes on the face with well marked linea nasalis . This symptoms leads to this remedy. After spasm weakness and prostration with sleepiness occur. 24 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA

25. Modalities Worse , 3 to 4 am, and evenings; warmth, summer. Better in open air and company. 25 Prepared by RAXIT R. VISHPARA